The ModeShape community is very proud and happy to announce the immediate availability of 3.0.0.CR1!

This is our first candidate release (CR) for 3.0, which means that if all goes well and no issues are found, we’ll simply retag this as 3.0.0.Final. However, if issues are discovered with CR1, then we’ll fix those and cut a CR2 release for additional testing. This will continue until we release 3.0.0.Final, which will be no earlier than October 17 so that people have time to test and use the candidate release.

As with earlier beta releases, this release passes 100% of the JSR-283 TCK tests with all JCR features that were available in ModeShape 2.x. (Note that we won’t officially certify until 3.0.0.Final, but you can run the TCK tests yourself by downloading our source and running “mvn -s settings.xml clean install -Pjcr-tck”.)

As always, we couldn’t do this without all the help from our community members. Well done, and keep up the great work!